Example sentences of "[noun] have n't know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot had n't known what it meant . |
| 2 | Gloria had gone in and a person at a window had waved once but Dot had n't known if it was him . |
| 3 | Benny had n't known whether to envy it or be sorry for it . |
| 4 | It would be easier now his mother was dead — though Clemence had n't known that when she wrote . |
| 5 | Eve had n't known that Mr Burns in the hardware shop was inclined to take to the drink or that Dr Johnson had a very bad temper and was heard shouting about God never putting a mouth into the world that he did n't feed . |
| 6 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 7 | Topaz had n't known what true contentment was until that moment . |
| 8 | No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him . |
| 9 | They had been close , Mrs. Fanshawe and Mrs. Browne , and there was n't much about the Fanshawes Mrs. Browne had n't known . |
| 10 | Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions . |
| 11 | They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before . |
| 12 | Montgomery had n't known , but he nodded all the same . |
| 13 | All the time , right up till then and a little beyond , Mary had n't known what was going on . |
| 14 | Susan had n't known how she was being used . |
| 15 | He looked shifty , and the painter had n't known enough to disguise the bulge under his jacket which made his chain of office lie uneven . |
| 16 | Practically torn apart by conflicting loyalties — and with Ross refusing to accept the idea that she might , somehow , be able to divide her life between the two continents — Laura had n't known what to do . |
| 17 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 18 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better get the exterminator in , Emily , ’ Edward said , again in his lowered voice , which was a habit famous in court at points when an inexperienced barrister had n't known where to stop . |
| 20 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 21 | It seemed clear now that there was a side to Elise which Merrill had n't known at all . |